Chapter 1 From the beginning

On July 21, 1986, in the early hours of the summer night, the white moonlight seemed to be very bright, but it could not really see everything in front of me, hazy and distorted!

The kitchen is a tiled structure made of adobe, with pots, desks and dilapidated red-lacquered cabinets, behind which is half a room of chopping wood and corn stalks, and high up are smoky cobwebs.

Twenty-two-year-old Tang Zhiyong sat behind the pot, the light projected by the flames reflected his red face, slightly childish, his eyes were fixed on the beating flames, his brows were tightly locked, and his eyes seemed to be excited as if they were lit with flames.

Twenty-four-year-old Tang Zhihong was busy rolling oil cakes on the board, today was the day when he went to work in the pharmaceutical factory in Beichu City to report, the chicken crowed, Tang Zhiyong opened the door and walked into the kitchen, followed his sound, the chicken barked, the dog barked, the drum passed the flowers, the chicken and dog in Tang Wangzhuang turned over and barked, and it was quiet for a while.

"If you don't have anything to eat in the city, I'll tell you Brother Wanmin, don't look at your Brother Wanmin drinking wine and breaking his mouth, in fact, he is a very good person, and he has helped our family a lot over the years. Tang Zhihong rubbed his face and did not delay nagging, the long bangs that flicked at will showed an unusually thin face from time to time, his face was delicate, his eyes were extraordinarily large, and his body was extraordinarily slender, which was already a ripe fruit.

At that moment, Tang Zhiyong actually looked at his sister stupidly, "Sister, you look so good!"

Tang Zhihong glanced at Tang Zhiyong, pursed his lips and smiled shyly, but the corners of his mouth always had a smile, and the whole person seemed to be working more quickly, and the aroma of seven or eight oil cakes was lingering.

Huang Jun's book is packed with bulge. The pancakes were divided into two parts, Tang Zhihong repeatedly nagged, a bottle of wine, a bag of fried peanuts and three oil cakes were for Li Wanmin, and the other five were reserved for him to eat.

Stepping out of the gate and wanting to say something to the eldest sister, when he turned around, he found his mother standing in the dark shadow at the door of the hall looking at him, his mother's emaciated figure and Sister A one after the other, Tang Zhiyong's eyes were sour and tears came out, most of the families in the village have lived a life of food and clothing in recent years, but his family not only did not get rid of poverty because they wanted to provide for him to go to school, but also relied on the help of Li Wanmin, who was driving a donkey cart in the city.

"Mother, I'll come back and take you to the city to see how to treat your cataracts!" his mother's eyes could barely see for many years, and he shouted, seeing his mother wave his hand and let him continue walking.

Under the big locust tree on the side of the road at the entrance of Tangwangzhuang Village, Ma Sanye squatted under the tree, skinny and shaped like rotten wood, if it wasn't for the sound of coughing and phlegm from time to time, it would definitely make people suspect that it was a legendary old monkey spirit.

"Third grandfather, didn't you say last night, don't you come to see me off?"

"People in the countryside are afraid of ghosts, and people in the city are afraid of people! I'll show you the way, don't get lost again in this life!" Ma Sanye coughed twice and said, "This is for you, you take it with you!"

When Tang Zhiyong handed over the oil cake and wine, Ma Sanye stuffed something back, and took it cool, and if you look closely, it is a cyan jade pendant, and you can't see the specific content clearly under the moonlight.

"Third grandfather, I'll go to the city to let people see if it's worth it, and give you more money!" Tang Zhiyong hesitated for a moment and put it in his pants pocket, thinking to himself, no matter whether it is worth it or not, he always has to give Ma Sanye a pension for the end, and if it is valuable, he will return it to Ma Sanye.

"Drive-" Li Wanmin made the donkey run wildly with a whip, and chickens and dogs barked in the village behind him.

stuffed the breakfast prepared by the eldest sister for Li Wanmin to Ma Sanye, so he had to take out two oil cakes and hand them to Li Wanmin, turned around and got on the cart.

"Your sister didn't ask you to bring me wine?" asked Li Wanmin suspiciously.

"Give it to the third master of Ma!" Tang Zhiyong said coldly, although the old bachelor Li Wanmin bought a donkey cart very early to pull goods in the city to make money, but because he has not married a wife in his thirties, it is still a joke in the eyes of the villagers.

Li Wanmin seems to be angry, and he is usually reluctant to whip at all, and the donkey that he beats runs like a gust of wind.

"Huh-" Li Wanmin screamed at the top of his throat and braked suddenly, and when he turned at Chenjiaqiao, the speed was too fierce and he was about to overturn.

Tang Zhiyong, who was lying on the board car in a daze holding the jade pendant, was suddenly bounced up, and he didn't have time to react, and fell directly under the Chenjia Bridge.

Chenjiaqiao is a dry bridge, up and down more than two meters, the ditch is soft soil and a few branches, Rao is so frightened Li Wanmin, jumped out of the car and jumped into the ditch.

"My dear brother, if you want to have three long and two short, how can I explain to your eldest sister?" Li Wanmin said while taking a flashlight.

In a daze, Tang Zhiyong felt like thunder exploded in his ears, and his tinnitus for many years suddenly hit ten times and a hundred times, his ears roared, and his head hurt sharply.

"Hmm!" Tang Zhiyong held his head and gritted his teeth and insisted, he was originally begging for death, why was he afraid of pain?

Wait, Tang Zhiyong suddenly felt that something was wrong, today was the day he went to report to the Nanpu Pharmaceutical Factory on August 20, 1986, how could he end his life? In a trance, the two memory fragments were intertwined like a dream.

"I'm back?" Tang Zhiyong wanted to open his eyes in confusion, but the feeling of headache made him unable to move.

"Driving ......." The sound of rushing to the car pierced the night sky at zero o'clock, as if Tang Zhiyong was awakened from a dream, and sat up suddenly, it turned out that Li Wanmin had already carried him to the car, and stared at it for a long time before confirming that the person who drove the car was Li Wanmin, he was not in prison, could it be that everything just now was just a dream.

Unnaturally touched the heart that seemed to be still uncomfortable, Tang Zhiyong shook his head, tinnitus and insect chirping were intertwined, he couldn't tell which was the insect and which was the tinnitus, his head didn't hurt but he was a little groggy, but there was a kind of relief on his body that he had never felt before.

Li Wanmin, who was driving the car, kept nagging about something, but after listening carefully, he said that he told his eldest sister to take good care of him, and he would help if it was difficult to live in the city, so don't have anything to do, otherwise, all these years of hardship will be in vain.

Huh? Is it really a drunkard's wasted brother-in-law Li Wanmin?

Rao is accustomed to calm heart suddenly turned over the waves, touched his neck, pinched his arm, not a dream, he came back and was reborn!

Li Wanmin, who didn't notice anything abnormal, continued to mumble, asking him to confirm again that he had returned to the day he went to the factory to report.

The black is the crops, the dense is the stars, the moon is like a silver-yellow heart guard, like a dream, breathing the smell of childhood, in order to go to school, how many nights smell this smell on the moon and walk forward, breathe this smell, and now do it again, the bitterness at that time is the happiness of luxury in the future.

Calmly tasting the smell of crops, sweet and silky corn seedlings, beany smell is soybeans. Life is precious, but love is even more valuable. If it is free, both can be thrown. These are the flavors of freedom.

A dream?

Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is stepping forward from the beginning.

From the beginning, the mountains are like the sea, and the remnant sun is like blood.

When I came to the door of the pharmaceutical factory in Beichu City, it was not yet dawn.

Tang Zhiyong looked at Li Wanmin, who was about to leave in the car, and said coldly: "Brother Wanmin, I have no objection to you marrying my sister, but you must quit drinking, otherwise I will break your legs!"

Li Wanmin, who was about to leave, shuddered, and looked back at Tang Zhiyong in surprise, the coldness of the sound piercing the bone marrow made his back cold.

"You know all about it? We've ....... If it weren't for you, we, we would ......" Hearing this, Li Wanmin's body trembled, turned around and stammered incoherently.

Li Wanmin didn't explain it for a long time, but he didn't want to leave, until he calmed down for a while, and then roared with tears: "Zhiyong, you are going to eat commercial grain in the future, the hard life is too hard to end, you can't be a white-eyed wolf!?"

"Say it again, if you quit drinking, I'll call you brother-in-law! If you don't quit drinking, if you dare to provoke my sister, I'll break your legs!" Tang Zhiyong looked at him coldly.

"Tang Zhiyong, don't you bite Li Dongbin doesn't know the hearts of good people, without me, where did your tuition come from in the past few years, why did you go to college!? I have been with your sister for many years, and my mother also allowed it, since you were in high school, your sister asked me to wait, and when you finished school, I waited for seven years, seven years, and I didn't agree to how many people came to say kiss! You can't control us!" Maybe it's the power of love, maybe it's the support of the eldest sister and mother, Li Wanmin roared like a snow and explained his own affairs.

"You hear clearly!" grabbed Li Wanmin's collar, but found that his body was very light, and he was as thin as his sister Tang Zhihong, all for the hardships he had suffered! Tang Zhiyong's mood suddenly became calmer.

In the darkness before dawn, the moon also hid in the clouds, Tang Zhiyong gently let go of Li Wanmin, and Li Wanmin squatted on the ground.

"Alas!" Tang Zhiyong sighed deeply, he remembered very well that Li Wanmin married his sister less than two months after he joined the work, Li Wanmin and his sister were quite harmonious, but he was an alcoholic and did not let his sister live a rich life.

patted Li Wanmin on the shoulder and said, "Brother-in-law, you have heard clearly, quit drinking completely, come to me again in a month, I will give you money, and marry my sister in a beautiful way! If you quit drinking, you are your own family, and I will take care of you! Go back and tell my sister, take care of Ma Sanye, he is kind to me!"

In his previous life, the eldest sister never mentioned the provision of his schooling, and Li Wanmin did not say it, now that I think about it, there is only a half-blind mother in the family, and my sister who is two years older than him, and the money for school has never been lacking over the years, not Li Wanmin's help, relying on my mother and eldest sister not to be bullied is already very good.

It turned out that he was ignorant in his previous life!

"Driving....... Smack!" The shouts and whips pierced the night sky, and Li Wanmin, who was happy, felt a kind of relieved excitement.